The Mirror

A) Where is the object?

1. Where is the object to be found? Where is the cup of coffee which you are looking at located?

2. In fact the object is simultaneously located at two places: On one hand it is located on the table by your side. On the other hand it is located in your mind.

3. Both of these events are necessary so that perception is established. Without the external object there is nothing to look at. Without the internal representation of the same object the object cannot be perceived.

B) The object does not exist without someone to perceive the object

4. Could we say that an object can exist without anyone observing it? This is pointless. How can anything exist without someone testifying its existence? How can one exist without being aware that one exists?

5. One could also argue that the external representation of the object- the object ‘out there’- is real, while the image of the object in our minds- the object ‘per se’- is fictional. But is it possible that the (external) object can come into existence without someone (some form of intelligence) perceiving it? It isn’t.

C) Perception is the object which perceives itself

6. We can treat our own perception as an object which perceives itself. Any content of one’s own consciousness (the ‘internal’ images) can be projected outwards, into physical space, and form real objects. Then the images of those objects are reflected back into the mind and become ‘tangible’ or perceptible.

7. In fact all the things which we consider tangible are no more real than the things which we consider intangible, such as light or music. The only difference is the sense involved in the perception of the ‘object’- touch, vision, or hearing respectively. While an object can be treated as a collection of physical properties, it is also at the same time a collection of the senses.

D) Our individual consciousness is part of the Universal Consciousness

8. But is finally our mind responsible for the creation of the objects which we perceive around us? How come two different people, who think about different things, see the same things around them at the same time? Although different impressions of the same object can be evoked by two different people, it seems that the same object cannot be created by thought, even if two people think the same thing.

9. But what if all people thought about the same thing at the same time? What if not only human minds but also any form of intelligence on the planet or in the universe coalesced to form a kind of Universal Intelligence? Such a Universal Consciousness could reproduce all stars and galaxies, as well as all material particles and living beings as products of its own psychic or energetic contents. In that sense our own individual consciousness would be part of such a Universal Consciousness.

E) All physical objects are manifested psychic contents

10. But how come we are able to perceive all those contents in the universe, which fundamentally are psychic fragments, or quanta of energy, or bits of information, as ‘real stuff,’ visible to our eyes, or tangible to our own hands? In fact all images which we have in our mind are tangible to the senses. The example of the cup of coffee we mentioned earlier showed that the cup of coffee is fundamentally an image in our mind, which we finally perceive as an external solid object at some distance in spacetime.

11. The process by which Consciousness reconstructs a ‘cup of coffee,’ or any kind of imaginary object or event in the universe, as a real object or phenomenon with some shape, color, density, or weight, and dimensions in space and time, is yet unknown. But this should be the ultimate purpose of science- finding the way or mechanism by which the elusive and invisible becomes approachable and perceivable. But the perception of things would be impossible without an intelligent mediator who makes the observation.

F) The mechanism of Projection- Reflection

12. Let’s give another example. When we stand in front of the mirror, we can take a look at ourselves. If the mirror didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be able to have our own perception. If we didn’t exist, there would be nobody to perceive the reflected contents of the mirror.

13. Both processes- the projection of our own consciousness in the mirror, and the reflected contents of our own existence back into our mind- are necessary so that awareness comes about. Both us and our image in the mirror would be non- existent and meaningless without this double and simultaneous process of projection and reflection.

G) Consciousness is the Mirror

14. In fact we don’t need two objects- us and some external object- so that awareness comes about. We can imagine that the mirror is found within our mind. This mirror vibrates and projects its contents or images in its surrounding space, while the same contents or images are reflected back on the surface of the mirror as manifested objects.

15. Anything in the universe could be the manifested images of such a mirror. But here The Mirror would be the only thing which exists in the universe. Eventually that Mirror can be identified with Consciousness itself.

11/25/2018

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